[truebrazilian]

"Quite a bit of the Amazon region is used to grow soybeans."

Not that much. Most soy in Brasil come from the Cerrado region, a Savanah-like biome roughly the size of german and france, more or less south of the amazon rain forest. Second to that, the region of the states of mato-grosso, sao paulo and parana.

Soy is not much of a driver for amazon deforestation. The main problems there are illegal loggers, illegal cattle ranching and gold mining.

[QuantumAphid]

Brazil is the dominant food producer in the Western Hemisphere. I didn't mean to bring up soybeans with regard to deforestation (although it is a factor), I used the soybeans example to illustrate that livestock, agriculture and global demand are highly interconnected. There is very little that anyone outside of Brazil can do to tell Brazil how it should manage its land and resources.

Brazil to pass U.S. as world's largest soy producer in 2018 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-soy-usa/brazil-to-...

02-Jul-2019 USDA sees record soybean harvest for Brazil https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2019/07/02/USDA-sees-r...

Brazilian Soybean Production By State https://twitter.com/kevinvantrump/status/956187342150266880?... https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/rssiws/al/crop_production_maps/Bra...